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EGEDE A N N 1 V E USA II Y.
When Dr. Cook returned to Copen
hagen from his discovery of the North
Pole, he made the trip In the good
ship Egede. It Is worthy of note that
this vessel was named after Hans
Paulsen Egede, one of the pioneers in
Greenland exploration, who was born
la Norway 223 years ago and died In
Copenhagen in 1768.
Early in the 12th cdntury a party of
Norwegians end Icelander weut to
Greenland to open up commercial re
lations and establish homes. They
were Christians but did nothing to
ward teaching the Eskimos. For over
200 years they were fairly sucessful
In selling products between ' Green
land and Norway. Then a change
came.
The Eskimos gave tnein serious
- trouble, the scourge of the "Black
Death," came and to crown their mis
fortunes vast seas of polar ice swept
about the east coast, so that this sec
tion was lnr.ccossltle. No ships
could reach the colony and they were
helpless.
During a period of 200 years efforts
were occasionally made to rescue
those who might have survived the
: original colonists, but there had been
' no success, and finally this band ot
. filoneers and their dlscendants bec
' came merely parts ot history.
Hans Egede was pastor of the vil
lage church at Vaagen, Norway .and
he became deeply interested in the
.constantly repeated story ot the colo
nist of Greenland. He began to
dream of a mission among the Eski
mos, and the finding of traces of the
unfortunate settlers. . .
'Realizing that there must be a
material object to attract and bind
followers in such an enterprise, he
organized the plan for a trading com
pany, members of which company
should go with him.
His friends and the Bishop of Ber
gen, tried to dissuade him in his plans
and only his wife, Gertrude Egede,
was in sympathy with the enterprise.
He pushed the matter of the trading
company with such good arguments
that Frederick IV.. King c Denmark,
took up the matter and empowered
Hans Egede to sail for tidings of the
lost colony, promising that ships with
suplies should follow him.
He sailed on the ship,' Good Hope,
July 3, 1721, with his wife and two
sons, and landed safely on the West
coast of Greenland, at Baals river.
They worked their way to the north,
trying to get traces of the early colo
ny, and waited with impatience the ar
rival of the relief ship from Denmark.
... It was after discouragement of every
sort that this reached Kanzec, aud
1 Hans Egede and his followers were
; urged to return to civilization.
But the fever of enthusiasm was not
. cooled even by the awful cold, and
Hans Egede decided to remain al
though many of the party had died
from the cruel climate. He and his
' jfamtly lived with the Eskimos in
their huts, and after the learned to
speak the native tongue they heard
the fate of the first colonists.
Hans Egede made a journoy with a
party of natives to a valley on the
east coast, where he found the ruins
of Norwegian homes, churches and
public buildings. .
The entire community had perished
and nothing but the ruins ot their
buildings remained! After a long
nurtoti with the natives, Egede re
turned to Copenhagen.
r WILL MAKE WORLD MAP.
8. J. Kubel and Bailey, v. hub, wp
resentatives at an international con
ference of topographers which open
ed in London today for the purpose
of designing a world map.
The conference Is the result of the
recent International geographic con
gress at Geneva, Switzerland. The
plan is to design a world map which
will be accepted by all countries rep
resented at the congress as official.
Lieutenant CO. Close, of the British
Army, will preside over the sessions
of the conference. Great Britian.
Germany. France, Austria, Italy, Ja
pan and the British colonies of Aust
ralia, .Canada and India are repres
ented. Thee si certainly taste of life
In Washington that fastens upon all
those who have tasted of political
honors. We notice that John L. Wil
son, a former 'United States senator
from Washington, has announced his
willingness to serve his state once
more. Congressman Burton L. French
of Idaho, who twelve Hours before the
last state convention thought his nom
ination waa secure and under ordinary
circumstances would have been, but
a few wire pullers during the mid
night hour proceeding the day of the
nomination fixed up a new slate which
won out. Mr. French will go before
i'u primaries ot his state for renom
inatlon and in Oregon we have Sen
ator Fulton who. It is stated, already
has a legal practice which in dollars
Is paying him much more than a sen
ators salary, still It is rumored that
he would like to take his former place
In the Benate. A witty Irishman once
described the desire for office 'sb a
disease, as It is contagequs and often
epidemic. The definition is often ap
plicable. Grain dealers f rom , many of the
Western states are in the Indiana
caitol today, attracted by the nation
al conference to be held there this
week DlscuBlng the purpose of the
conference President Theodore G. Nel
son says:
"Of the subject the grain dealers
were asked to consider when we sent
out the call, the matter of the estab
lishing by the congress at Its next
meeting of a uniform standard by
which to grade grain in all parts of
the United States and the linking to
gether of the farmers' elevators of
the country into a national associat
ion for the purpose of backing the
movement and the question of how
best to reduce the cost of bringing out
products from the producer to the
consumer, seems to get most atten
tion." o&a "'"
Nobody has occasion to worry much
when "Joy riders" '"ginned up for a
time," kill themselves or each other.
But when they run over other people
on the road, there Is room for protest
The inspiration of "Joy riding" is In
the loose conduct of young women.
Liquor Is its common adjunct. Many
girls and young women are bo mad
for the Joy-ride that they seem will
ing to sacrifice everything for it, ln-
eluding reputation. The men care lit
tle for the Joy ride. Their object is the
woman.Can any young woman be Ig
norant of the purpose? If bo she has
been very insufficiently Instructed.
The automobile and the liquor beats
any combination for a downfall that
has ever been known before. Oregon
Ian. Thanksgiving preparations . have
already begun in many of the homes.
This is one of our greatest holidays;
simple, not demonstrative like our
Fourth of July, but in fact more pa
triotic than the former owing to the
closer home ties. Thanksgiving, gen
erally speaking, is strictly a home
gathering and every home building
act adds Just that much to the uplift
ing and perpetuity of our nation.
The Honorary Commercial Com
missioners from Japan, who have re
cently visited the large cities and in
dustrial centers of both east and West
are back at San Franslsco and will
sail for home next Tuesday. The will
spend tomorrow in Oakland, accord
ing to their schedule. All profess to
be . well pleased with their visit nad
the treatment accorded them.
San Francisco defeated Francis J.
Heney and he ts now coming hack to
Oregon to prosecute Blnger Hermann
for alleged land fraud. If Mr. Heeney
ts not careful he will send Dinger
back to congress. Stranger things
have happened In Oregon politics.
over the embassy of the great South
American Republic today at Wash
ington, and the Ambassador and his
graphers of the United States Geo- staff are celebrating in honor of the
logical 8urvey, re the America" r,mt-iortependence Day,
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